From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.191] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-3.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UVBVH-0007KA-3W for ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:01:43 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([140.211.166.183]) by sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) id 1UVBVG-0000kP-5L for ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:01:43 +0000 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:01:29 -0400 References: <5177684F.7060204@cn.fujitsu.com> <201304241207.31644.vapier@gentoo.org> <20130425011303.GB30114@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20130425011303.GB30114@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201304242201.31244.vapier@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [LTP] question about a license List-Id: Linux Test Project General Discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0291047345290918814==" Errors-To: ltp-list-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: James Takahashi Cc: ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net, wboyer@us.ibm.com --===============0291047345290918814== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart8557961.JgqQgoh0UP"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart8557961.JgqQgoh0UP Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday 24 April 2013 21:13:04 James Takahashi wrote: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:07, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Wednesday 24 April 2013 05:32:56 chrubis@suse.cz wrote: > > > > When trying to cleanup syscalls/getitimer03.c, i meet a strange > > > > license. It says: > > > >=20 > > > > *******************************************************************= ** > > > >=20 > > > > /* > > > >=20 > > > > * $Copyright: $ > > > > * Copyright (c) 1984-2000 > > > > * Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. > > > > *$ > > > > * This software is furnished under a license and may be used > > > > * only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the > > > > * inclusion of the above copyright notice. This software may not > > > > * be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any > > > > * other person. No title to or ownership of the software is > > > > * hereby transferred. > > > > */ > > > >=20 > > > > *******************************************************************= ** > > > >=20 > > > > Here is my question, > > > > 1. Can i change this license to GPL2? or > > > > 2. Can i modify code of the case under this license? > > > >=20 > > > > Could you please provide me any pointer/suggstion. :) > > >=20 > > > Given that the testcases is a few lines that calls getitimer() with > > > invalid value, I would play safe and rewrite it from scratch. > > >=20 > > > Anybody has different opinion? > >=20 > > there are four such files: > > testcases/kernel/syscalls/getitimer/getitimer03.c > > testcases/kernel/syscalls/getresgid/getresgid01.c > > testcases/kernel/syscalls/nftw/Makefile > > testcases/kernel/syscalls/nftw/nftw64.h > >=20 > > the Makefile has at least be rewritten enough that i think we can change > > things as the code has largely been written by Garrett Cooper now > >=20 > > if we can't locate someone (Wayne Boyer?) for the tests, i suggest > > looking at what they test (just read the comment block), then delete the > > file and write a new test from scratch. > >=20 > > the header file i think might be accidental as none of the nftw files > > look that way. instead, they have the ibm copyright. so i'd just > > change it to that. -mike >=20 > Wayne is still at IBM (Sequent was acquired by IBM). I have CC'd him > on this thread. >=20 > If you'd elaborate on what sort of permission/assistance you need for > this copyright issue, I'm sure Wayne would be happy to cooperate. the code says Wayne wrote it. if Wayne can confirm that, and if he can con= firm=20 that we want to change the copyright to the standard ibm ones (found in man= y=20 other files) and license it similarly. =2Dmike --nextPart8557961.JgqQgoh0UP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJReI57AAoJEEFjO5/oN/WByVEP/izx5gmxHuAPUhEnZ2Akf4cd 41kzTt9ZeW7F0w6IsKx8d7CAuqDF4VvMKpNEuuk3in9qMT8wG/r24acxmk5I08WN ZN77fvW5lGhGhXYK9Z4hyUaAN+mDJEqrRnaqSzYrU5N7DFG2awgQjnwhIo2B+pK3 Nywy6I9SGT2wBktiumOfV6LfNUmXzZMNPQJsAkwMJm/+NWIGJqCa8LBNDNInBrod i2eUy43AuLcap6WXuPCYhEsdrI/EV8sdzU6YfF6fqRMEhJ01bwPJwMN7ecslhz+F aqqNzSLdhGcV9lJNhrD/RZ2jGmFdXGZR1kQSnjejL5nGibosqQUQ7tiAFsJ/J9Ai Wv3nrnqnxbr9kVXaC23Td7FgYlmRqD2228Sp3rlFFVu1hSpSGcUI54k66jX6mro/ 1lNkHiL76yEEZp1DwslyJZyH/Zk0SuYeQ5l4/n/rGEo+pdcOGfu5Ey2cX60FbqE8 mm7/EwLH6yP9OLBynNPt5Rb2M7e8hJ5IIDqb+W8rWQW/6W7Ja4Q0IeTUYWvgvBf/ 45/79ZsM808bwWf34pXqJ/kN8tk38l7KB/bugvuQ7qAl7yueCHavX+5idJOKMhYq uc1FN1Y3/tH7/uVO52dZkttdxG6uWVsOy9IpMfMFilwcZ+rsGtaQQaOEAn6tKoN8 Iq4dqpJIlLD5uku1Tbu7 =nNPc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart8557961.JgqQgoh0UP-- --===============0291047345290918814== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. 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